Hearing Research Scientist

The audio team within RL Research is looking for a Research Scientist with a specialty in audio processing to join our growing team. You will be doing applied research and applied engineering in technologies that improve listener’s hearing abilities under challenging listening conditions alongside a team of dedicated research scientists, developers, and engineers.

This role requires skills in signal processing for hearing enhancement and a passion for improving users’ ability to experience the world around them. In this position, you will collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, and designers to develop novel hearing enhancement technologies. You will focus on designing and integrating state-of-the-art hearing enhancement algorithms to AR/VR products to create new experiences beyond what traditional consumer devices are capable of.Hearing Research Scientist Responsibilities

• Research and design DSP and ML solutions for hearing features such as Conversation Focus and Hearing Correction on smart glasses. The work may include using both signal processing & ML techniques to solve problems in hearing enhancement (dynamic range compression, feedback management, adaptive filtering, noise suppression, dereverberation etc) and speech enhancement (adaptive beamforming, ML noise suppression, voice detection)
• The key focus in this role is to bring previous experience of developing such solutions for hearing aids or other hearables and apply such experience to the smart glasses form factor
• Design and implement hearing enhancement algorithms for wearable audio devices
• Develop solutions that solve complex problems at the intersection between beamforming, machine learning, acoustics and signal processing for applications in AR/VR
• Develop algorithms that meet system-level acoustic, compute, and memory constraints for wearable audio devices
• Collaborate with teams in the larger Reality Labs audio team to deploy new technologies in AR/VR products

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD degree or equivalent in Applied Mathematics, Audio Engineering and Signal Processing, Acoustics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 3+ years experience developing, implementing and evaluating algorithm and signal processing techniques for audio processing
• 3+ years experience in programming in C++, MATLAB, or Python
• Experience with cross-group collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in hearing enhancement signal processing and auditory perception
• 2+ years of experience in speech, hearing and audio perception research & technology development
• 3+ years experience developing, implementing and evaluating algorithm and signal processing techniques for speech enhancement solutions
• Experience with application of machine learning techniques to speech enhancement algorithms
• Experience and proven track record of developing and productizing speech enhancement solutions

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